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Auction 108, Lot 270

"South America Brazil Island and Strait of Santa Catharina", British Admiralty

Subject: Brazil

Period: 1886 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
26 x 38 inches
66 x 96.5 cm
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Handsome, large-scale sea chart of Santa Catarina complete with soundings, anchorages, channels, and lighthouses. Insets of "Anchorage of Nossa Senhora do Desterro" and "South Entrance of Santa Catharina Strait." A profile view of the northern entrance to the strait is a bottom. The chart is based on both French and British surveys and was first published in 1865. This chart is updated to 1885.

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Condition: A

A few tiny edge tears.

Estimate: $200 - $240

Unsold

Closed on 9/29/2004

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